28 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build the foundations of Wise’s real-time liquidity observability stack and core streaming data pipelines.
- Set the technical streaming strategy and deliver infrastructure initiatives for global financial operations.
- Architect high-throughput Kafka and Flink pipelines processing global bank transactions and liquidity data.
- Build the real-time Liquidity Attribution Model and low-latency systems for global liquidity visibility.
- Develop event controls, real-time aggregation, and data flows supporting cash positioning, transaction routing, and ML forecasting models.
- Design resilient event architectures handling duplicate events, out-of-order data, network partitions, schema shifts, backpressure, and state-store recovery.
- Model data for real-time consumers and downstream analytical stores, including schema evolution.
- Write well-tested maintainable code and participate in rigorous design reviews, RFCs, and collaborative technical decision-making.
- Partner with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Quantitative Analysts, and Treasury Operations.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Java or Scala.
- Proven experience building, deploying, and operating production-grade, low-latency stream-processing pipelines using Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Flink, or Spark Streaming.
- Hands-on experience handling duplicate events, out-of-order processing, late-arriving data, and exactly-once processing semantics in financial or mission-critical domains.
- Strong expertise in tumbling, sliding, and session windows, stateful stream processing, and high-throughput real-time aggregation.
- Advanced experience modeling data for real-time stream consumers and downstream analytical stores, including event schemas, state-store schemas, and schema evolution with Protobuf or Avro.
- Experience designing for dead-letter queues, backpressure management, circuit breakers, and state-store recovery.
- Willingness to learn and develop skills beyond the listed qualifications.
Benefits
- The role is offered with Wise benefits.
- The position includes RSUs.
- Compensation is listed in GBP and paid yearly.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Wise
Wise builds a cross-border payments and multi-currency account used by individuals and businesses to send, receive, hold, and spend money in 40+ currencies. Revenue comes from transfer and account fees, card interchange, and enterprise partnerships via Wise Platform, which lets banks and large companies embed its international payments. Founded in 2011 as TransferWise, Wise is a London-headquartered public company.